
WTF is Gut Health?
You might be thinking, "๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐จ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ช๐ต ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ?"โฃ
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Simply put, your gut health is referring to the beneficial and harmful bacteria in your gut, aka your ๐ฆ๐ข๐๐ซ๐จ๐๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐!โฃ
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Your microbiome is as unique as your fingerprint. (cool, eh?)โฃ
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In order to achieve "good" gut health, you want to have a higher ratio of beneficial bacterial. Yep, we rely on these guys to keep us healthy!โฃ
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So what happens when your gut health isn't great?โฃ
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- ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ช๐จ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ด๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ข๐ด ๐ฆ๐ง๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต. ๐๐ฌ๐ข ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ง๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ.โฃ
- ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด. (๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐จ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ฉ๐ถ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ด๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ)โฃ
- ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ. ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐จ๐ถ๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ต'๐ด ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ, ๐ช๐ต ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด, ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐น๐ช๐ฆ๐ต๐บ.โฃ
- ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐บ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐จ๐จ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ต๐ฉ๐บ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต.โฃ
- ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ช๐จ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ถ๐ต๐ฐ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ๐ด.โฃ
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You didn't realize your gut played such a big role in your overall health, did you?โฃ
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Now let's talk about how you build up your badass army of healthy gut bacteria!โฃ
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๐ท. ๐๐ข๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ ๐ท๐ฆ๐จ๐จ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด! ๐๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ต๐ฉ๐บ ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ฑ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ท๐ฆ๐จ๐จ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ?โฃ
๐ธ. ๐๐ฆ๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ง๐ช๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ช๐ฏ - ๐ธ๐ป-๐น๐พ๐จ ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ. ๐๐ช๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ช๐ฐ๐ต๐ช๐ค ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ช๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ต๐ฉ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ข ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ (๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฎ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฎ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฎ)โฃ
๐น. ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ช๐ฐ๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ด = ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต-๐ด๐ฐ-๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฏ. ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ค๐ฉ๐ช, ๐ด๐ข๐ถ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ณ๐ข๐ถ๐ต, ๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข, ๐ฆ๐ต๐ค... ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต!โฃ
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Finally, let's not forget about some of the most basic, yet essential ways to optimize not only your gut health but your health as a whole:โฃ
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- ๐๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ด๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑโฃ
- ๐๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ตโฃ
- ๐๐บ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏโฃ
- ๐๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต๐ญ๐บ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ด (๐พ๐ถ/๐ธ๐ถ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ)โฃ
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Have you been prioritizing your gut health?โฃ
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